Comair Flight 206

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Comair Flight 206
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An Embraer 110, similar to the incident aircraft
Accident
Date1 March 1988 (1988-03-01)
SummaryIn-flight breakup due to suicide bombing
SiteGermiston, near Johannesburg International Airport
Aircraft
Aircraft type Embraer EMB 110 Bandeirante
Operator Comair (South Africa)
Registration ZS-LGP
Flight originPhalaborwa Airport, South Africa
DestinationJohannesburg International Airport, South Africa
Occupants17
Passengers15
Crew2
Fatalities17
Survivors0

On Tuesday 1 March 1988, Comair Flight 206, an Embraer EMB-110P1 Bandeirante flying from Phalaborwa to Johannesburg [1] [ unreliable source? ] was approaching Johannesburg International Airport to land when it broke up in flight over Germiston. [2] [3] Reports indicated an explosive device on board; the cockpit was found a quarter of a kilometer away from the rest of the fuselage, despite the flight having been relatively low at the time of the accident. A miner on board had taken out a large life insurance policy shortly before the flight. [2] There were no survivors.

Comair continued to use the flight code on a different route between Durban and Johannesburg up until their financial collapse in 2022.

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